Rudy Fernandez and Jaycee Carroll combined for 51 of Real Madrid’s 86 points and everyone got what they wanted except CSKA Moscow, who lost to the Spaniards in Spain in overtime, 86-78, on a court that was painted blue and red. [Read more…]
CSKA Moscow let one slip against the Euroleague’s most charmingly enigmatic headache, my regrettable championship pick finally stepped foot in the Land of the Unterrible, and two teams with 8-2 regular season records moved to 1-4 in the Top 16. [Read more…]
Andrei Kirilenko and Nenad Krstic descended upon Moscow last October to steal the headlines and recede the hairlines, and CSKA made it all the way to the Euroleague finals. Afterwards, Krstic stayed put, but it’s Viktor Khryapa’s sensational year that’s rendered AK47’s presence in Minneapolis a non-factor in the Russian capital. [Read more…]
Olympiacos has filed an official petition with the Euroleague to nullify Montepaschi Siena’s 74-72 win on Friday. Bobby Brown’s game-winning lay-up with 1.7 seconds left wouldn’t have counted, says the Greek club, if the clock hadn’t been stuck at 10 seconds for several ticks with the game tied at 72. [Read more…]
The week between games three and four used to be the Top 16’s halftime. Teams would count their wins and their wounded and move on to the second legs of home-and-away round robins. You had seen everyone once, and everyone had seen what you were capable of as well. [Read more…]
The only way to appropriately discuss the rivalry between CSKA Moscow and Khimki Moscow is to take the word rivalry out of it altogether. [Read more…]
Bobby Brown tied the Euroleague single-game scoring record on Friday night with 41 points on the road against Fenerbahce Ulker. [Read more…]
In March of 2002, a 16-year-old Maciej Lampe played his first ever Euroleague Top 16 game for Real Madrid. The Polish prodigy scored seven points in 14 minutes and a little over a year later, the Knicks made him LeBron James’ opposing bookend as the 30th pick of the 2003 NBA Draft. New York whipped around and dealt him to the Suns in the Stephon Marbury trade, and three years and 64 games later, Lampe was out of the league at